Death is only the beginning

Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage inspires a magnetic, transgressive work – so vivid you can almost taste it.

Andrea Peña & Artists’ make their UK debut with BOGOTÁ, which brings together ancient mythology, magical realism and baroque architecture. In this brutalist alternative world the queer body meets Colombian political heritage, both glittering and grotesque.

BOGOTÁ is steeped in artistic director Andrea Peña’s Colombian heritage. Cycling between chaos and rebirth, nine intense performers invite us to contemplate death and resurrection, in the landscape of Bogotá City (aka The Lady of the Shining Mountain). In this magical realist universe, movement becomes a vehicle for storytelling, uncovering passageways to transcendence and honouring the resistance of deviant bodies.

Andrea Peña & Artists is a multidisciplinary dance company, based in Montreal and noted for large-scale work that engages with both ambitious choreography and design. They create alternative universes, political and philosophical imaginings that invite the audience to experience risk-taking work of real ambition.

Header image description: Six naked bodies wrap around each other on the floor. It’s difficult to tell where one body starts and another ends.

Header image © Andrea Peña